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think again the wife of a retired fireman from pritchard, alabama. so does is that warn the government and stop squandering our money? no. i'll showour tax money looked like hungry people grabbing pork out of a barrel. you pay to blow up beaver dams in mississippi and eliminate brown tree snakes in guam. they study the immune systems of shrimps and you paid to create this robot that folds laundry. >> these programs create jobs. >> senator harry reid wants to fund frills. >> a cowboy poetry festival. >> john: some are so silly they sound fake. they sent out this woman to ask. is this government program real or fake. >> $2.6 million for this. >> most people thought this was fake. >> i think so. >> you say false. >> actual truth is worth. >> $2.6 million to get chinese to drink it. >> why can would the government pay for this? >> $1 million in stimulus funds to get smokers to stop smoking by giving blackberries. >> to help smokers connect with other people yet. >> you got a blackberry. >> and after they spend your money the government charges you again

and that's what they are relyin. >> john: in pritchard his town.nding you are going to broke broke in exnumber of years. they do nothing? supposed to be the responsible party. >> what happens is that when you get to the point where someone says you are going to go broke in five years in a pension fund, the cost of getting out of it is so high people just ignore it state like new jersey, 10 years they bear live made a payment into the pension system. unfunded liabilities get bigger and bigger. illinois don't make payment into pension, they borrow the money. that joke i just made, that's what they do. it keeps getting bigger and bigger the problem. >> john: they know it's going to blow up and they figure they will be out of office or they will stick their heads in the sand. >> pension fund is a long-term problem. the account something very, very complex. way too complex. like wall street accounting. so what happens is they basically ride it out. all of these people who made all these states like new jersey and new york and connecticut who made pensio

ktvu's ken pritchard is live at the bay view opera house now live. >> reporter: i was just inside the bay view opera house were more than a hundred people were gathered to hear. the march last night ended with vandalism and arrests which some say is hurting their cause against police in this case. police say it was members of black block or black anarchists that marched down the street last night. businesses were forced to lock their doors to protect employees and customers. fernando kosta was working in this cell phone store. >> we saw a large group walking down, they all had bandannas and ski masks. when i started seeing the ski masks, we were definitely worried. >> reporter: they were protesting the police shooting of ken eths harding -- kenneth harding. community leaders angry with police say they don't agree with the anarchist vandalism. >> they ridicule us in the corporate media and also in the mind of people who are trying so hard to save lives. >> reporter: misha razzi says she sympathizes and is in contact with groups such as black block but says measures such as smashing win

in pritchard, alabama. >> this woman is angry because her husband worked for the city for 32 years. he held up his end of the bargain. but the city didn't send him a mention check for more than a year. the city council says we don't have the money. an accountant warned that you will run out of money and the politicians did nothing. they admit it today. >> right on schedule in 2009, they declared bankruptcy and just stopped sending pension checks to retired city employees. more than a hundred of them. >> they didn't do anything they were supposed to do. they didn't pay us like they were supposed to. >> alfred are rertd from the pritchard fire department after working 35 years for the city. he had hoped to relax and travel. so when the checks stopped coming, now at age 66 he is a security guard at a local mall. >> alfred arnold joins us and steve malanga. you had to get a job as a security guard? >> oh, yeah. >> you thought you were going to get a pension from the city and it wasn't there? >> not there. i have to go to work, 40 hours a week, it's like starting all over again. >> john:

it has already happened in pritchard, alabama. this woman's husband worked for the city for 32 years. he held up his end of the bargain but the city didn't. they didn't send him a pension check for more than a year. the city counter insurgency st. louis says we don't have the money. in 2003 an accountant warned the town you will run out of money by 2009. the politicians then did nothing as they admit today. >> never nothing changed. never never was accomplish. >> right on schedule in 2009 the town went broke so politicians declared bankruptcy and just stopped sending pension checks to retired city employees. more than 00 of them. >> we want our money. >> they didn't do anything that that they were supposed to do. they didn't pay us like they were supposed to. >> alfred arnold retired after working 35 years for the city. he hoped to relax and travel. when the pension checks stopped coming he had to get another job. now, at age 66 he is a security guard at the local mall. and alfred arnold joins us along with steve malenga who studi

it has already happened in pritchard, alabama.s woman's husband worked for the city for 32 years. he held up his end of the bargain but the city didn't. they didn't send him a pension check for more than a year. the city counter insurgency st. louis says we don't have the money. in 2003 an accountant warned the town you will run out of money by 2009. the politicians then did nothing as they admit today. >> never nothing changed. never never was accomplish. >> right on schedule in 2009 the town went broke so politicians declared bankruptcy and just stopped sending pension checks to retired city employees. more than 00 of them. >> we want our money. >> they didn't do anything that that they were supposed to do. they didn't pay us like they were supposed to. >> alfred arnold retired after working 35 years for the city. he hoped to relax and travel. when the pension checks stopped coming he had to get another job. now, at age 66 he is a security guard at the local mall. and alfred arnold joins us along with steve malenga who studies g

it has already happened in pritchard, alabama.his woman's husband worked for the city for 32 years. he held up his end of the bargain but the city didn't. they didn't send him a pension check for more than a year. the city counter insurgency st. louis says we don't have the money. in 2003 an accountant warned the town you will run out of money by 2009. the politicians then did nothing as they admit today. >> never nothing changed. never never was accomplish. >> right on schedule in 2009 the town went broke so politicians declared bankruptcy and just stopped sending pension checks to retired city employees. more than 00 of them. >> we want our money. >> they didn't do anything that that they were supposed to do. they didn't pay us like they were supposed to. >> alfred arnold retired after working 35 years for the city. he hoped to relax and travel. when the pension checks stopped coming he had to get another job. now, at age 66 he is a security guard at the local mall. and alfred arnold joins us along with steve malenga who studies

detroit, harrisburg, pennsylvania, and pritchard, alabama, are all in danger. municipal bankruptcy pushes up borrowing costs, pushes down property values, drives away business investment, and requires years for a full recovery. then there's the emotional cost for the people who live in places like jefferson county. >> at night, when everybody is asleep, i do cry. i don't know how i'm going to make ends meet. i don't know if i'm going to have my job back. >> reporter: for now, jennifer brown is depending on city leaders to come up with a plan to keep her hometown solvent as she uses food stamps to put food on her table. mia rodriguez, cbs news, birmingham, alabama. >> mitchell: coming up, a city with a surplus of noisy helicopters. is help them save money. plus we discuss possible side effects and -- help them save money! we help them save money. get care 1 on 1 and talk savings, safety, and side effects when you transfer or fill a new ongoing prescription. i'm carla, and this is my cvs. and his, too. i see you're flatulent in three languages. graduated top of y

ktvu's ken pritchard is live with the man's ordeal. ken? >> reporter: i talked to the coast guard here in alameda. they say the search continued off the mexican coast. still no sign of the seven people month remain missing. as you said, we did hear from another survivor who is now back home who has a different take on how the crew acted as the boat sank. when the 115 foot fishing charter boat eric sank one week ago in the sea of cortez, survivor charles gordon says he felt strangely abandoned. >> it was surrealistic. i mean i'm here and as i saw the ship pointed this direction, it is like the titanic. it went slowly. i could read the name eric. as it went down in the water. >> reporter: gordon is chief of police for the contra costa community college district. he says his life preserver did just that. a gift he received only after a wave knocked him off the boat. >> a good friend, glen wong, who had a vest and a flotation device, took his vest off and handed it to me. gave a big smile and said charles don't, say i never gave you anything. >

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in alameda ken pritchard, ktvu channel "2 news." >>> 9 republican candidates have been chosen from the straw poll in the all important state of iowa. two potential candidates have been excluded. >> >> texas governor rick perry supporters -- expected -- sara palin was excluded. she's not expected to make a decision before late august. >> >> mitt romny and john huntsman will be in the straw poll, although neither of them have a significant campaign in iowa. >> >> democrats apparently have another sex scandal on their hands. an 18-year-old daughter of david woo has accused the congressman of an unwanted sexual encounter last november. woo admitted the incident but sold senior aides it was consensual. he was reportedly planning to meet with congressional leaders in washington to discuss the matter. house leader nancy pelosi refused to comment. woo is in the middle of a divorce and previously apologized for strange behavior, including sending the staff a picture of himself dressed in a tiger suit. >> >> bay area nurses gathered to fight for more pediatric care. keiser permanente is looking

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in san francisco, ken pritchard, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> just about an hour ago san francisco police gave us these new numbers, police arrested 43 people or failure to obey an order of a officer and pedestrians walking in a roadway. 17 were from san francisco but 26 came from cities throughout california, one was actually from out of state. a police spokesperson told us they are still investigating the property damage and the vandalism that took place at the bank of america and at a muni station and said there may be more arrests and charges. >>> a new report finds there's been a big spike in the number of police officers killed in the line of duty and that california is the fourth deadliest state for such deaths. the national law enforcement officers fund said 98 officers have died from january 1st, that's a 14% jump. in california, five officers have died this year. the police say the recession forced them to cut budgets. >> we're putting officers at greater risks because we're not giving them the resources they need to do their jobs effectively and safely. >> one of the five calif